Art, Freedom, and the National Book Awards
With protests and division in 2023, Ursula K. Le Guin's rousing 2014 speech is more relevant than ever
In the messy run up to this year’s National Book Awards, I found myself battling both sadness and irritation at yet another event being shadowed by the Israel-Hamas war. That was only my first response, however. The ironic thing is, I’d already been prepping this post about a previous rabble-rousing speech by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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